OK, so nobody's mentioning the Jam?  They broke up at the top of their commercial success  right after "Town Called Malice" crossed over to America.  The Gift wasn't a great album, but they definitely didn't overstay their welcome.

PLEASE MAKE THE RED GO AWAY!

Miller - you're right.  After I read your first post I googled "Poison Ivy".  I guess Lieber and Stoller wrote in their autobiography that it was a VD song.

Apart from the classics that people have listed, I'd nominate the Drive-By Truckers' The Dirty South as a perfect album.

So "Poison Ivy" is about VD?  For as long as I've been listening to the Coasters that never occurred to me.

Here's an idea that is working well with my youngest, who is 11:  Several years ago, I made him his own playlist on my iPod and named it after him.  I stocked it up with all sorts of stuff that I thought might interest a kid, including some very old oldies, like the Coasters' "Charlie Brown" and "Yakkety Yak," a bunch…

If I do, I'll take my big ol' lunchpail with the picture of Star Wars painted on the side.

"… radios turned up very loud 
playing 'Dancing Queen.'
They love our music!"

"…provided he isn’t suddenly lured away by the opportunity to play Sad Clown or House With Sun." Good stuff, O'Neal.

Blood and Fire put out my favorite reggae compilation, Darker Than Blue:Soul From Jamdown 1973 - 1977.  It's mostly covers of funk songs by reggae artists, including a great cover of War's "Slippin' Into Darkness."

I was thinking the other day that "51/7" wouldn't have been out of place on Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart or Key Lime Pie. 

I vaguely recall Bill Wyman in his late 40's marrying his 18 year old girlfriend and then his son getting engaged to the girl's mom.  That scenario blows Jerry Lee's doors off.

"He's possessed of a first-class criminal brain 
And an unlimited supply of novocaine"
"Death Dentist" - Jazz Butcher

"I chew my food 'cause you know I got them manners" is my new favorite lyric of the year.

"I chew my food 'cause you know I got them manners" is my new favorite lyric of the year.

Potatoes gonna potate.

Potatoes gonna potate.

I got one! The name just popped in my head from out of nowhere!  How about Alabama Shakes???  

I got one! The name just popped in my head from out of nowhere!  How about Alabama Shakes???  

"SATAN’S WRATH is the only band in the world in communication with thy master through ceremonial black magic and necromantic rituals."  If you read it out loud as "thigh master" it's way more evocative.